Per capita health care spending in 2013 was 21,000 drams ($50)

Last year the government-funded health care spending amounted to 64.4 billion drams, 89.6 % of the projected amount or 1.5% of the GDP or 6.2% of the total government spending, the minister said at a discussion of 2013 budget execution.

According to him, 42.3% of the spending was channeled into hospital services, 36.2 percent on out-hospital expenses, 5 % on public health programs, 4.2% on the purchase of pharmaceutical products and 12.3 % on some other health programs. -0-